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1. OPERANT CONDITIONING THEORY
- B.F. SKINNER’S
Submitted
by
Maheswari.S
St. Ignatius College of
Education,Tirunelveli

2. INTRODUCTION
 This theory was given by skinner in 1938.
 According to him, the behaviour of human being or animal is
not a passive reflex.
 Skinner revolt against no stimulus, no response theory.
 In their life we do not wait for things to happen.
 Most of our responses cannot be attributed to known
stimulus.
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3. OPERANT CONDITIONING
Operant conditioning is the type of learning in which
behaviours are emitted to earn rewards or avoid
punishments.
“Instrumental Learning”
 Operant -> Operant is an act which constitute an
organism for doing something.
 Responses -> Skinner put forward the idea that most of
our responses cannot be attributed to unknown stimulus.
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7. SKINNER’S EXPERIMENT WITH RAT
 Skinner developed a special apparatus known as skinner’s box.
 This box has a grid floor, a system of light or sound produced at the
time of delivery of a pellet of food, in the food cup, on the pressing
of lever.
 Skinner placed a hungry rat in the box.
 In this experiment, pressure on the bar in a certain way, by the rat
could result in the production of a click and emergence of a food
pellet.
 The rat was rewarded for each proper pressing of the lever.
 The rat repeated this process, and ultimately learned to press the
lever as desired by the experimenter.
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8. EXPERIMENT ON RAT
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9. ANOTHER EXPERIMENT
 Skinner conducted another experiment on pigeon, the
pigeon moves about the cage.
 It was trained to peck a disk.
 Every time when it pecked, food was supplied.
 Thus, food reinforced the behaviour of pecking the disk,
called an operant.
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10. EXPERIMENT ON PIGEON
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11. EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
 Successive approximation
 Eliminating negative behaviour through extinction
 Reinforcement
 Behaviour modification
 Basis for programmed instruction
 Behaviour therapy.
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12. STRENGTHS
 This theory is very helpful in raising children and when
teaching them.
 The low grade is negative reinforcement for not studying, and
vice versa.
 The good behaviour produces a wanted result and the bad
behaviour produces an unwanted result.
 Using positive and negative reinforcement methods may after a
child’s behaviour problems.
 The child will mentally make an association between good
behaviour with reward and bad behaviour with punishment.
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13. WEAKNESSES
 This theory seems to deal strictly with distinct behaviour;
good and bad.
 It seems as if there be no in between.
 The students need to be able to have group discussions, and
the encouragement to figure out on their own by
experimentation and search.
 This theory lacks engagement and motivation of the
students which is a big weakness, in my mind.
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14. CONCLUSION
 Both the experiment clearly explains the working of operant
conditioning.
 The important part in any operant conditioning learning is to
recognize the operant behaviour and the consequence resulted
in that particular environment.
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15. REFERENCES
 Sharma, R.A.(2008). Fundamentals of Educational
Psychology
 Mangal, S.K. (2015) Advanced Educational Psychology
 www.simplypsychology.org
 www.psychology.wikia.com
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